Project Reveals Practice of Selling Information on Mass Graves

Tribunal officials and human rights activists said that an IWPR article on the unscrupulous practice of selling information on mass grave sites has highlighted a serious problem in the region.

ICTY representative in Bosnia Refik Hodzic said IWPR article on selling information on mass graves was “excellent and deserved to be on front pages of all newspapers in Bosnia”

According to Hague court representative in Bosnia Refik Hodzic, the story, Bosnian Burial Sites Uncovered for Cash, published on June 6, was “excellent and deserved to be on front pages of all newspapers in Bosnia”.

Hodzic said he thought coverage of the subject was “very, very important for this region”.

“Although I am familiar with the phenomenon of finding mass graves through people who request money for that information, this article gave me a better insight into that problem,” he said.

Srdjan Dizdarevic from the Helsinki Committee for Human rights in Bosnia said the report showed that, tragically, people were still profiting from the war.

“It is tragic that 13 years after the war, some people still benefit from the consequences of that war – including those who sell information on burial sites – and this article perfectly illustrates that,” he said.